d to the magistrates, charging them with the enforcement
thereof, and warning them that especial attention will be paid to
their observance of them, when their residencias are taken.

_That the natives shall bring their provisions for sale to this
city_. Likewise, they ordered the said alcaldes-mayor and magistrates
to be charged and ordered to procure and give orders, each one in his
jurisdiction, to the Indians to come to this city with fowl, swine,
wine, rice, olive-oil, vinegar, and other provisions which they may
have, to sell in this city, for the provision thereof. They are to come
directed to the president, so that he may have some one commissioned to
distribute the provisions without injury to their owners, and at their
full value. Especial care is to be taken in the execution of this.

_That pork shall be sold in the public square at a counter, by weight
and assize_. Further, they ordered that, neither in this city nor
its suburbs, nor in the Sangley and native settlements, shall any
person offer for sale or sell, a dead hog or parts thereof, in the
streets or in their houses, unless it is brought to the square or
the Parian, or any other place that shall be assigned therefor by
the magistrate. There it shall be sold publicly at a counter, by
weight and at fixed rates, under penalty of confiscation of whatever
is found on sale in any other way--which shall go to the alguazil or
judge executing this decree--and twenty lashes applied to the seller.

_Price at which hens, chickens, and capons shall be bought and
sold. Item_: In order that the dearness of the price of fowls may cease
(for they are the principal sustenance of this land), and because it
is just that there shall be a common and general price for all, they
ordered that no person--Spanish, Sangley, native, or other, of any
quality, rank, or condition whatever--may sell or cause to be sold in
this city, or within a radius of five leagues thereof, hens, capons,
and chickens, whether of their own breeding, or of their income,
profit, or property, in any way whatsoever, at a higher price than
the following: a laying Sangley hen, two and one-half reals; a Moro
hen, two reals; a male chicken, one real; a pullet, one and one-half
reals; a Sangley capon, three and one-half reals--under this penalty,
that whoever shall be found selling at a higher price shall lose the
fowls which are thus sold, which shall be divided into three parts,
among the hospitals of t